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Lois Stokes

Stokes

Lois Stokes, 95, of the Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Butler, formerly of Pleasantview Avenue, Butler, died at 6:05 p.m. Friday in the Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

Born July 12, 1915, in New Sewickley Township, Beaver County, she was the daughter of the late John Teets and the late Evelyn Louise Dumbaugh Teets.

Mrs. Stokes was a homemaker. She is a member of the Christ Outreach Church, which was formerly St. Paul's United Church of Christ. She was very active in her church, where she was the chairwoman of the soup and salad fundraisers for a number of years. She was a member of the Tanglewood Center. She loved playing cards, traveling and visited all 50 states. She also enjoyed working on the family genealogy.

She is survived by her three sons, David Wogan and his wife, Darlene, of East Brady, Donald Wogan and his wife, Pennie, of Butler, and John Wogan and his wife, Elaine, of Butler; her two daughters, Evelyn Kennedy and her husband, Donald, of Butler, and Janet Federkeil and her husband, John, of West Mifflin; her 12 grandchildren, Karen Link, Susan Dimsa, Holly Galioto, Dana Little, Kim Shay, Gordon and Brian Kennedy, Andrew Federkeil, Corinne Marhel, Todd, Jason and John Wogan Jr.; her 26 great-grandchildren; her sister, Mrs. Clara Cunningham of Zelienople; her brother-in-law, Melvin (Red) Kyle of Butler; and a number of nieces and nephews. She also is survived by two stepdaughters, Betty Mansfield of Wimberley, Texas, and Ginger Angus and her husband, Philip, of Carnegie; two stepsons, James E. Stokes and his wife, Louise, of Hobe Sound, Fla., and Bruce Stokes and his wife, Clydene, of New Wilmington; six stepgrandchildren; and three step-great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Stokes was preceded in death by her first husband, Earl Wogan, who died Nov. 4, 1978, and her second husband, James Stokes, who died July 31, 2010.

<B>STOKES</B> — Friends of Lois Stokes, who died Friday, Oct. 15, 2010, will be received at the <B>Thompson-Miller Funeral Home</B>, 124 E. North St., Butler, from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday.Services will be at the funeral home on Monday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Ralph Link, retired pastor, officiating. Interment will follow in Butler County Memorial Park.

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